Networking

Global VNet Peering now supports Gateway Transit to simplify customer network's by allowing the use of a remote gateway in another region.

Azure Firewall Service is now generally available in Azure Government, and has been generally available in all Azure public regions since September 2018.

On May 1, 2019, the resource GUID names of ExpressRoute will change from "Port" to "Direct."

Threat intelligence-based filtering for Azure Firewall is now available in preview. The addition of the Threat Intelligence feed to the filtering capabilities expands both the options to alert and deny…

Global VNet Peering now supports Standard Load Balancer in all Azure regions, including Azure China and Azure Government regions.

Enhancements to NSG flow logs (version 2) and traffic analytics are available in all public cloud regions.

Effective February 22, 2019, the resource GUID names for ExpressRoute Gateway will change.

Domains hosted on any Microsoft DNS service, including Azure DNS and Traffic Manager, will continue to work after DNS Flag Day. Customers don't need to take any action at this…

Enhancements to NSG flow logs (version 2) are available in the West Central US region. They include per-flow throughput statistics.

We’re rolling out changes to enable Network Watcher by default for subscriptions that contain a virtual network. This will simplify and improve your network troubleshooting experience.

Azure DNS now supports alias records for DNS zones.

Outbound Rules for Standard Load Balancer is now generally available. This new ability allows you to declare which public IP or public IP prefix should be used for outbound connectivity…

Now in preview, Azure Load Balancer supports sending of bidirectional TCP resets on idle timeout for load balancing rules, inbound NAT rules, and outbound rules.

We are pleased to announce support for point-to-site VPN in Azure Virtual WAN. A point-to-site (P2S) VPN lets you create a secure connection to your Azure Virtual WAN from an…

Azure Virtual WAN provides a simple, unified, global connectivity and security platform to allow the deployment large scale branch infrastructure. ExpressRoute provides private connectivity into the Microsoft global network.

Azure ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to connect your on-premises networks via the ExpressRoute service through Microsoft's global network.

Azure Firewall is a managed cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. It's a fully stateful firewall as a service with built-in high availability and unrestricted…

ExpressRoute Direct allows customers to use the functionality of ExpressRoute and connect directly to the global Microsoft backbone at 100 Gbps. This enables customers who have scenarios like massive data…

Azure DNS has a new feature available now: alias records This feature lets you map your DNS records to an Azure Traffic Manager profile or a public IP resource such…

Azure Application Gateway is an application delivery controller-as-a-service offering that provides layer 7 load balancing, security, and web application firewall functionality. Autoscaling functionality is available in preview as part of…

Azure Virtual Network Gateways now support OpenVPN as a protocol for point-to-site clients to connect.

Zone-redundant VPN and ExpressRoute virtual network gateways are now generally available. This physically and logically separates them across different availability zones, protecting your on-premises network connectivity to Azure from zone-level…

Azure DNS is being offered at 100% availability SLA, guaranteeing that valid DNS requests will receive a response from at least one Azure DNS name server 100% of the time.

Azure Traffic Manager provides metrics for monitoring the health status of endpoints in a profile and the amount of traffic that a profile receives. These metrics are now generally available.

Learn what's new in Azure DNS metrics and alerts.

Microsoft peering with route filters is now available for Azure ExpressRoute Standard SKU.

Use Azure Network Watcher Connection Monitor to monitor and troubleshoot connectivity from an Azure virtual machine to anywhere.

Azure Standard Load Balancer is now generally available in all regions.

If you're connecting your virtual network by using Azure ExpressRoute or VPN gateways, you can disable routing through BGP by simply adding a property in your route tables.

Azure DNS Private Zones is in public preview. This feature enables customers to host DNS zones within their virtual networks, and it enables name resolution within and across virtual networks.

Use Azure Network Watcher to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.

Use Azure Network Watcher, to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.

Azure DNS is now generally available in Azure Government.

Azure Networking features will be available only in the Azure portal from October 4th, 2017. Networking related feature support from the classic Portal will be deprecated starting October 4th.

HA Ports, a premium offering of the Azure Standard Load Balancer, is now generally available. This will enable customers to configure a single load balancing rule to process traffic from…

Azure Networking announces the general availability of P2S VPN for Macs and AD Domain authentication for P2S VPN.

Azure Network Watcher announces the preview of connectivity check for ExpressRoute circuits.

Real user measurements will enable customers to influence the routing decisions made by Azure Traffic Manager, when using the performance routing method, to provide even lower latency for their users…

With traffic view, Azure Traffic Manager customers will now be able to understand where their user bases are located (up to a local DNS resolver level granularity), the volume of…

Azure Load Balancer introduces a HA Ports, a capability that enables you to load balance internal virtual network traffic on all ports for all supported protocols.

Load Balancer Standard is in preview. You can use it to create load-balanced deployments with greater scale, resiliency, and ease of use for virtual machine instances inside a virtual network.

Azure DNS is now generally available in Microsoft Azure Germany.

On July 31, 2017, the Azure Network Watcher team will begin to update the Azure Blob storage path for NSG flow logs.

Use Azure Network Watcher connectivity check to test connectivity between Azure virtual machines.

To improve your Azure VPN experience, we're going to introduce a new generation of VPN gateways with better performance, a better SLA, and at the same price as our older…

Two new features in Azure Traffic Manager are now generally available—Fast Failover and TCP Probing.

In Azure Traffic Manager, two new features related to endpoint health are now generally available: Fast Failover and TCP Probing.

Use Azure Network Watcher, now in general availability, to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.

Use Azure Network Watcher, now in general availability, to monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into network performance and health.

Starting April 3, 2017, the Azure Traffic Manager service will be available only in the Azure portal.